Canada's largest wireless phone company went off line yesterday with all its wireless voice services and some messaging capabilities switched off.

Rogers, also a major cable-TV operator, said its data services were not affected. Talking this morning the company said that it worked as quickly as possible to restore service and it was gradually restored over the course of the evening. The company said it is investigating the root cause of the outage and that services are gradually resuming. It is still not clear how the company's entire operations could shut down in such a spectacular way.

The main fear was that many customers relied on their phones for emergency services. Police in Toronto warned residents about the problems in case they had an emergency and had to call 911. The City of Calgary advised Rogers customers who needed to reach emergency services that if they didn't have a land line, they should ask to use the phone of a neighbour or a store in their area.

More details regarding the upcoming Motorola Moto X have leaked online thanks to a Rogers "Tech Experts" demo video published by a Google+ user. The video revealed some of the key features of the Moto X and hinted at an August launch.

The demo video kicks off with Moto X always-on voice commands that allow user to query voice Google Search without search app and also detailed the "Active Updates" which light up the display and show the notification, since the Moto X lacks an LED notification light.

The video also revealed some details regarding the camera app that can be accessed by two flicks of the wrist and able to shoot photos with simple screen tap as well as take burst photos by tap and hold.